Soft robots are only as capable as the artificial muscles that drive them, and for years those muscles have forced a trade-off between strength and flexibility. A new magnetic polymer design is ...

A dual cross-linked magnetic polymer solves the fundamental trade-off limiting soft artificial muscles, achieving ...

Cross-linking polymers simply means adding bonds across polymer strands, explains Jeremy E. Wulff, a chemistry professor at the University of Victoria who led the work. Silicone bakeware, certain ...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhengwei You from the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Fiber Materials at Donghua University published an ...

Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This ...

The world is filled with a myriad of sounds and vibrations -- the gentle tones of a piano drifting down the hall, the relaxing purr of a cat laying on your chest, the annoying hum of the office lights ...

Simulations have led to the fabrication of a polymer-DNA gel that could be used in tissue regeneration and robotics. Simulations have led to the fabrication of a polymer-DNA gel that could be used in ...